There are better ways to enable a child to walk. One is called Feldenkrais
method bodywork. google it on the web.   Nobody that I have ever known was
happy with this surgery. Once you cut the tendons, there is no way to undo
it. 

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> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Collis <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 1/2/2007 4:01:13 PM
> Subject: Re: tendon ?'s.. bad outcomes?
>
> Kristina, I had surgery on my hamstrings, and my parents said if they knew
> then what they knew ten or twenty years after the event, they'd never have
> Okayed it.  I always enjoyed sitting on my knees, but when I had the
> surgery, I was unable to do that any more. Ask yourself this; do the
> possible benefits outweigh the risks involved and is there any way for you
> to talk to the parents of children who've had this type of procedure done?
> Also, what will the child give up as a result of the operation, if
anything?
> Then and only then will you know how to proceed.
>
> This is just my $.02 worth.
>
> Mike 
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:43 PM
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> Subject: tendon ?'s.. bad outcomes?
>
>  
> I am wondering if anyone had any bad outcomes?  As in too loose after 
ther 
> surgery or a child that after surgery could not do am much as before
> surgery?  
> We are still thinking about it.
>  
> Kristina
> Mom to Faith 10 with CP.
> Former 25 week preemie.
>
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